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UK complicit in murder through participation in illegal drone warefare

Medea Benjamin
RT
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 14:12 UTC
drone program
© Efren Lopez / U.S. Air Force photo / Reuters
The US likes to get the UK directly involved in its activities so at the UN and other international agencies it will have the support of European allies, says Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink, and author of a book on drone warfare.

Newly released documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden have shed light on US spying operations from a base in the UK. The leaks include details of how surveillance data gathered there was used in American targeted killings in the Middle East and North Africa.

RT: How significant is the role of the NSA's British base at Menwith Hill, in US 'targeted killing' operations?

Medea Benjamin: We always knew the UK was working together with the US on these drone operations. But now we have much more information that details how Menwith Hill has been used to collect vast amounts of data that is used not just for surveillance, but actually given over for military operations. So, that's directly linked the UK complicity with drone warfare that many of us think is illegal and violates international law. So, I think that people who have been protesting the way the UK has been working hand in glove with the US in the drone program have a lot more direct questions now to ask of their elected officials.
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Attention

G4S admits it guards Dakota Pipeline as protesters get attacked by dogs


teleSUR
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 13:59 UTC
Federal agents guarding against protesters
© Standing Rock Dakota Access Pipeline Opposition
G4S, a U.K.-based security multinational, admitted to having personnel deployed at "remote sites" where Native Americans are defending their lands from the planned US$3.8-million Dakota Access pipeline that they say would pollute the drinking water of millions.The actions have brought together over 200 tribes in solidarity and faced a heavy offensive by private security companies and state officers deployed under a state of emergency.

The security company has been under fire for providing services to Israeli prisons and settlements, expanding across the Middle East including Afghanistan and Iraq and operating juvenile detention centers and handling deportations from the U.S.

In an email to teleSUR, G4S Communications Director Monica Lewman-Garcia wrote, "G4S Secure Solutions is providing fewer than 10 security officers, assigned to remote sites, providing limited short-term unarmed patrol services."

G4S recently published a new job opening for an armed custom protection security officer in Mandan, North Dakota—next to the campsites—which was reposted on Facebook by Lakota Sioux Tribe member Olowaan Plain.

Comment: $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline: Iowans sue, while North Dakota calls in National Guard

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Chess

China's AIIB is establishing a new international financial order

Ariel Noyola Rodriguez
Global Research
Thu, 08 Sep 2016 12:58 UTC
AIIB IMF
© Konstantin Maler
During the first Annual Summit organized by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Beijing, China has shown her intention to take over the global leadership in infrastructure investment. By the end of this year, AIIB would have more than 100 members, making it the first lending institution in multilateral loans in history, under the control of the most important emerging countries. Yet, it is expected that it makes the decision of dropping off the Dollar, as it is the only way to break away from US hegemony in international finance.

China is already ahead of the US in the race of financing infrastructure at the global level. International finance is going through transformation, in spite of the strong resistance by the powerful American controlling power. Last year, high officials from Washington had tried to sabotage the launch of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank - AIIB, but failed to do so.

In fact, countries that had formerly declared their allegiance to the US government, namely Germany, France, Italy, UK, had, at the end of the day, taken the decision to join the new multilateral lending institution promoted by Beijing. President Barack Obama could not imagine that the AIIB would have got the support of more than fifty countries within a few months.

Without a doubt, China is accelerating US decline across the globe. In April 2015, Larry Summers, former Secretary of Treasury under Bill Clinton, declared that the successful call made by the AIIB represented the most dreadful blow to the US hegemony. "Last month will be remembered as the time where US have lost their role as gatekeeper of the World Economic System", he said.

Comment: The AIIB will likely wait to drop the dollar until it is absolutely necessary. Although China has done much to diversify and strengthen their currency, it is not wholly independent from the US dollar and will still be impacted from its collapse. If and when the AIIB does move away from the dollar, that'll be a pretty big sign that the climax of US economic collapse is underway.

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Info

Mirziyoyev is Uzbekistan's new leader: Relations with Russia set to grow closer

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 12:03 UTC
Putin and Mirziyoyev
Uzbekistan's parliament has now confirmed Shavkat Mirziyoyev's appointment as Acting President of the country in place of the recently deceased Islam Karimov.

This comes just 2 days after Mirziyoyev's meeting with Putin in Samarkand when he spoke of Russia as an "allied country".

Mirziyoyev's appointment as Acting President coming on top of his previous appointment as chairman of the commission which organized Karimov's funeral and his meeting with Putin in Samarkand 2 days ago, all but confirms that he is Uzbekistan's new leader. Presumably his position will be formalized once national elections to the Presidency take place, as will doubtless happen shortly. Needless to say, in Uzbekistan such elections are essentially a technicality.

Comment: Now that Uzbekistan's Islam Karimov is dead, China's LNG imports could be threatened

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Propaganda

The NYT tries to ridicule Gary Johnson about Aleppo but fails by making multiple errors in describing the city


Moon of Alabama
Thu, 08 Sep 2016 19:09 UTC
aleppo map
© Peto Lucem
The U.S. election campaigns and their news coverage are generally embarrassing. But this incident of miss-coverage by the acclaimed paper of record beats many others. While attempting to criticize a candidate's lack of awareness or knowledge the NYT author and his editors demonstrate four times that they have neither.

The libertarian candidate Gary Johnson was asked a question of foreign policy relevance and did not know the answer. The question was about a city in Syria but, like it or not, no city in Syria has significant relevance in the general context of the U.S. presidential elections.
"What is Aleppo?" Mr. Johnson asked after he did not get some question about it.
The New York Times, which mocks any candidate but Hillary Clinton, found that small lapses remarkable enough to write a whole piece about it. But its reporter and his editors show a bigger lack on knowledge than Johnson did. The headline: 'What Is Aleppo?' Gary Johnson Asks, in an Interview Stumble. The reporter, one Alan Rappeport, did not know either. Here is the first version he and his editors put out:
"What is Aleppo?" Mr. Johnson said when asked on MSNBC how, as president, he would address the refugee crisis in the Syrian city that is the de facto capital of the Islamic State.
No. Aleppo is not the de facto capital of the Islamic State.
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Stormtrooper

'Russian doping scandal': IPC revokes accreditation of Belarus official who carried Russian flag in solidarity with banned Paralympics athletes


RT
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 10:39 UTC
belarus russian flag
© Iliya Pitalev / Sputnik Belarus Paralympics official Andrei Fomochkin
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has rescinded the accreditation of a member of Team Belarus who carried a Russian flag during the opening ceremony of the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The Belarus delegation carried their home flag at the front of their entourage at the ceremony, but in an apparent show of support for their neighbors, Belarusian Sport and Tourism Ministry member Andrey Fomochkin held aloft the Russian flag at the back of the group.

Russia's Paralympic team were given a complete ban from the event by the IPC in the wake of an alleged state-sponsored sports doping program in the country.

Comment: This is further evidence that the 'Russian state doping scandal' is a political attack against Russia for thwarting US global hegemony.

See also:

Belarusian Paralympic team carries Russian flag in support of banned athletes
Cultural war against Russia: Pole vault champion says Russian athletes being targeted in 'doping scandal'
Russian Olympic doping scandal: A 'sexed-up' McLaren Report implicated clean athletes - see you in court
Cultural warfare: US attempt to ban Russia from Olympics for 'cheating' is rank hypocrisy

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Eye 1

Famed CIA vet Robert Baer knows man with foreknowledge of 9/11 - has done nothing about it, nor has anyone else

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Wed, 07 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
Robert Baer
Ex-CIA agent Robert Baer
A 21 year veteran of the CIA, Robert Baer is billed as "one of America's most elite intelligence case officers." Having worked field assignments in Lebanon, Sudan, Morocco, Iraq and other international hotspots, he was praised by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh as "perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East."

He has written multiple books based on his experiences with the agency. He has worked as a consultant on documentary and television projects. He regularly appears as a commentator on CNN and other news outlets, and he writes a regular column on intelligence matters for Time. George Clooney's character in Syriana, Bob Barnes, is based on Baer and his experiences with the CIA.
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Monkey Wrench

Jeremy Corbyn takes action on claims leadership contest is being rigged

James Wright
The Canary
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
Jeremy Corbyn


Jeremy Corbyn is investigating claims that the Labour leadership contest is being rigged against his supporters through arbitrary voting bans.

The Labour leader has demanded the name of every person who has been disenfranchised, telling The Guardian:
I'm surprised at the numbers of people who've been denied a vote and I'm surprised at the lack of reason that's been given to people.
Shehab Khan, political columnist for The Independent, estimates that Labour could have banned over 200,000 members.

Corbyn expressed concern about the democratic cost of silencing so many voices:
I'm concerned about that because surely in a democratic process everyone should be entitled to vote unless there is some very good reason against them.

Comment: Corbyn is bad for the war business (and all elitist business for that matter). See the following for how operatives in his own party - part of the Tony Blair cabal - have been orchestrating moves against him from the start:

Coup against Corbyn: Tony Blair's elites try to snatch Labour Party back from the working class

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For Killary and her neocon supporters it's all about Putin and Russia

Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 01:59 UTC
Paul Wolfowitz
© WikimediaPaul Wolfowitz
Hillary and the neocons know who to blame for Trump

Many issues characteristically beloved by Democrats are being raised to disparage Donald Trump. The man has been maligned as a racist, a bigot, as unfit for office and even described as a psychopath, presumably in contrast to Hillary Clinton who loves people of every color and shape as long as they are not living next door and will faithfully vote Democratic after they are afforded entry into the United States and amnestied. Hillary, who has held nearly every senior government office that a human being can reasonably aspire to but the one she is currently lusting after, is unlike Trump only sufficiently deranged to kill people if they live somewhere in the third world and can't do anything about it.

A persistent line emanating from the "national security" experts who have flocked to Hillary's side is that Trump would threaten the safety of the United States. That many of the crossovers are neoconservatives who have brought us a number of unnecessary wars in the past fifteen years is pretty much ignored by the media just as the argument that the U.S. has a presumptive right to intervene militarily wherever and whenever it chooses is generally accepted. The latest talking head who stands firm for national security is Paul Wolfowitz, who was interviewed by the German magazine Der Spiegel on August 26th. Some readers might recall Wolfowitz. He was the number two at the Pentagon under Donald Rumsfeld. A forceful advocate for the Iraq war, he is famous for having observed that the Iraqis would welcome the American invasion and that the war would pay for itself rather than the $5 plus trillion that it has actually cost. How he came to the latter erroneous conclusion is not very clear, though it may have had something to do with looting Iraq's oil reserves and exporting them through a pipeline to Israel, an idea that was once floated by Wolfowitz's godfather Richard Perle.

Comment: Regardless of all the leftish Demo-speak she mouths, in (whatever passes for) Killary's soul, she's a neocon through and through. From the very beginning of her career, she has cut a swath of destruction. The psychopaths are gathering around one of their own.

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Take 2

Matt Lauer slammed by mainstream press after vet tells Hillary 'I would have been imprisoned' if I did what you did

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 08 Sep 2016 17:08 UTC
Matt Lauer with Hillary Clinton
© Doug Mills/The New York Times Matt Lauer with Hillary Clinton during Wednesday’s forum at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan.
During last night's "Commander in Chief" forum in which both presidential candidates laid out their views about the future of the US military, as well as the country's defense and security, with both committing numerous gaffes, none appears to have gotten as much criticism as event moderator Matt Lauer. As the NYT reports this morning, "charged with overseeing a live prime-time forum with Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton, as a dry run of sorts for the coming presidential debates, Lauer found himself besieged on Wednesday evening by critics of all political stripes, who accused the anchor of unfairness, sloppiness and even sexism in his handling of the event."

The reason for the anger, originating mostly on the left, is that having been granted 30 minutes with each candidate, Lauer devoted about a third of his time with Mrs. Clinton to questions about her use of a private email server, then seemed to rush through subsequent queries about weighty topics like domestic terror attacks.

Comment: In other news, not only did Clinton not have "just one device" (she had over a dozen, which were destroyed with hammers by her aides once retired), which she would often "lose", according to the FBI report; she bought them used on eBay:
"I don't want to get into this too much, but part of what was happening with the secretary of state was, she was acquiring technology that wasn't even supported by BlackBerry," the House Oversight chairman said in Washington, DC on Wednesday, according to the Washington Examiner.

This was a serious "vulnerability," according to Chaffetz. "We have a huge problem with personnel," he said. "She was actually buying this stuff off of eBay because somebody was selling their old machine. That's what she liked, so she did."


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